Chapter 1 — Waking Up After A Blind Love

After graduating from college, my family bought me a house paying all in cash. My boyfriend's family was not to be outdone, trying to manage enough money for a deposit for him to buy a house, and also had to pay a loan of 6,000 yuan each month. I was speechless: "You earn 6,500 a month. After paying the rent, how will you live?" You still have to rent a house, you have to eat and drink, are you planning on living in a mountain cave? Who would have thought that my boyfriend would shyly rub his head against me, making a heart shape with his hand: "Aren't you still there, baby, begging the rich woman to take care of you~~" I said loudly: "Sorry, we women of the new age are not interested in doing charity!" 1 After graduating from university, my family all hoped I could pass the career entrance exam in City H. To give me more motivation, my grandparents offered a reward of 200,000 yuan, and my parents promised to give me a house. “If you pass the exam, everything is yours!” I feel like people still see me as a child, this action is no different from when I was a child, luring me into getting vaccinated by buying lollipops. Of course, I understand the family's feelings. So, to achieve the reward, and more importantly to give them peace of mind, I put my head on the beam, stabbed my thigh with an awl, followed the moon and stars, and overcame all the hardships... Finally, without disappointing my expectations, I passed the exam! The whole family celebrated happily, my parents immediately fulfilled their promise and took me to H town to buy a house. "People say the real estate market is unstable now, is it reasonable to buy now?" Faced with high house prices here, I also hesitated. But my parents were very determined: "Due Due, you are a girl, working here, you must have a place to set foot. When you get married later, this house will also be your fulcrum!" They also insisted on paying all in cash, not letting me bear a single penny of debt, which made me so moved that my eyes turned red. “Mom and Dad, you are amazing!” I will definitely repay my parents well in the future! At the same time, there is another good news. My boyfriend - Hach Bang - also passed the payroll exam at H Thi, it's just that we belong to two different agencies. 2 Hac Bang is my college friend. We have loved each other since our student days. After graduation, friends in class went their separate ways, and there were very few couples still together. When our friends heard that we had both "passed the payroll exam" and were still in H Thi, everyone congratulated us, saying that there must be a happy event coming up. But I don't want to get married so early. I feel like I'm still young and still want to see the world. I need time to work, exercise, read books, take degrees – to enrich myself. I still have many unfulfilled dreams, and I haven't thought about settling down at all. But clearly Hac Bang doesn't think so. Since both of their jobs stabilized, he constantly mentioned "marriage". Every time I avoided him, he complained that I "didn't intend to take responsibility for him". After knowing that my family bought the house and paid in full, he still seemed unhappy. “Why didn't you talk to me about it an hour ago?” I asked again: "Your parents pay everything, why do you have to discuss it with me?" Of course, whoever puts in the money has the right to decide. Hac Bang pouted and said: "But at this point, we should have planned to buy a house together and then get married!" Buy together? What do you think? My parents bought the house for that reason I guarantee, if I bought it with you, the meaning would be different. I said: "What country is this? We don't even have a word in the eight characters yet!" But Hac Bang spoke eloquently: "Baby, I'm very serious about this feeling! Big and small, I tell you everything, I know you to get married, remember! In your future, you must have me!" Me: “……” This sentence is usually only said by a domineering CEO, but right now he is at most just... a domineering and poor person. But I'm an honest person, every time he said that, I felt a little guilty. I just feel like I'm just playing around and not taking responsibility. After that, to prove that he really wanted to get married, Hach Bang also bought an apartment in H Thi. 3 After Hach Bang bought a house, he openly bragged about it to his friends. People were both admiring and jealous, commenting: "So cool!" “Really good!” “Everything is enough, just waiting for marriage!” Seeing him so pleased, I didn't know what to say, so I asked: "Didn't you say before that you didn't have enough deposit money? What's the hurry?" Hac Bang's family is not rich. His parents are both unemployed workers and do not have stable jobs. To make a living, his father rented cars for a garage, and his mother set up a small stall selling breakfast in front of the house. The two of them worked hard from early morning until late at night, struggling to feed and educate him. When I first met Hac Bang, I didn't pay much attention to his family's conditions. Love in college is inherently simple, few people think too far. Later, when my parents heard about his family's situation, they neither objected nor supported, only said: "If their parents are so diligent, they can still survive. The important thing is to see if the boy has good qualities or not." That's what the words say, but I understand that Hac Bang's family and my family are really not on the same level. My father is a university lecturer, my mother is a bank manager, my grandparents all have good conditions, my family can be said to be well-off. As the only daughter in a middle-class family, from childhood to adulthood I lacked nothing, both materially and spiritually. My parents often say: "If you receive a lot of love, you won't feel deprived, and you won't be easily seduced by bad boys." I often tease them that they worry too much. Having said that, I have to say it again, this time Hach Bang's family has collected enough to make a deposit to buy a house. It sounds like a lot, but that amount of money includes: his grandparents contributed three hundred thousand from their end-of-life savings, and his three aunts each contributed ten thousand. One person buys a house, draining the entire family's savings. What's more terrible is that he also borrowed nearly two million. With a "stable" salary as you said, I don't know when I will be able to pay it. Yet Hac Bang wasn't worried at all, and excitedly told me: "Baby, that place will be our little home in the future!" I don't know how to respond. The house he bought is near his workplace, but far from mine. City H is super large, with many administrative districts; If I actually moved there, it would take at least two to three hours to commute every day. Hac Bang was completely unaware of my silence, still immersed in the joy of buying a house, continuing to daydream about the future. After a while I remembered: “Oh right, every month you have to pay the debt how much?" Our state budget is more than 4,000 per month, not a little. But if he borrows such a large amount of money, the pressure will certainly be great. Unexpectedly, Hac Bang said "umm", then said in a low voice: "Excluding public funds, I still have to pay 6,000 more!" “6,000?!” I was so surprised that my eyes widened. 4 I was stunned for a few seconds, then said: "Your monthly salary is 6,500, subtract 6,000 and you have 500 left. Is that enough?" Even though I'm not very good at math, I quickly calculated that Hach Bang's income was almost negative. “The house I bought is under construction, it will take two years to deliver. Including the decoration time, it will take at least two and a half years to move in. Since your house is not here, do you not need to rent a temporary place to live?" Hac Bang tried to sound gentle: "It's only been two and a half years, it's gone by so quickly, I've been anywhere!" I almost burst out laughing: “What about eating and drinking? You don't spend money? Are you planning to live by the wind? Nowadays, I really don't understand what 500 yuan a month is enough for. Hac Bang wrapped his arms around my shoulders and said softly: "Baby, aren't you still there?" He made a heart gesture: "Big sister, please take care of me..." I was stunned: "What do you mean, are you going to eat what I have, drink what I have, stay at my house?" Then I gathered all my savings to pay off the debt to buy a house that had nothing to do with me. What a brilliant calculation that left me dumbfounded. Hac Bang said petulantly: "Don't say it so harshly. You can think of me as a 24/7 bodyguard and… bed warmer!” “Think about it, don't you feel scared when you're alone in such a big house? Other girls have to buy men's shoes and put them at the door to pretend they have boyfriends, but I don't have to pretend anymore! “……” I calmly said: “Then I still have to thank you, right?” Hac Bang laughed: "No need, I'm very easy to raise. You only need to take care of three meals a day and help me do the laundry! Aizz, think about it, I'm so happy, in the future I can eat the food you cook! In short, in addition to eating my food, staying at my house, spending my money, now he also wants me to go shopping, cook, clean, do laundry - and by the way, sleep with him.